Aspiring pastry chefs and chocolatiers around the world dream of training in France. There are many culinary schools offering professional pastry and chocolate programs, as well as shorter specialised classes. The listings below are just some of the many programs available. Please contact schools directly for more information. Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Pâtisserie is [...]

Salon du Chocolat has just closed its doors in Paris for another year. But in a city where chocolate is as almost as ubiquitous as art, there’s already another chocolate fair coming up. Chocorama, Paris’s “chocolate market”, is taking place from November 11-13, 2011 at Espace des Blancs Manteaux, in the Marais district. Thirty-five French [...]

With its series “Chocolat-Thé-Epices,” the Institut d’Etudes Supérieures des Arts (IESA) in Paris is offering more than a dozen Monday evening presentations throughout fall 2011 and spring 2012 on these three topics. The first four events are devoted to chocolate and will feature audiovisual presentations, artifacts and, of course, chocolate tastings. Speakers will include professionals from [...]

La Maison du Chocolat’s creative director Gilles Marchal will be giving a three-hour Easter chocolate workshop at Ecole Ritz Escoffier culinary school in Paris. Two sessions of this hands-on event, called Extrême Chocolat, will be offered: Sunday March 27 or Sunday April 10, from 10 a.m to 1 p.m. Participants will learn tips and tricks [...]

Chocolatier Pierre Cluizel has just opened his first chocolate “concept store” in the heart of Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés district. Located in the historic Cour du Commerce Saint-André at the base of the ancient 13th-century city walls built by Philippe Auguste, the brand new, 800-square metre store features a chocolate shop, pâtisserie, bar, restaurant, lounge and chocolate [...]

Do you dream of working with chocolate or learning how to make chocolate eclairs, soufflés, macarons and other classic French pastries and desserts? For visitors to France wishing to study pastry arts and chocolate during their stay, the following schools offer workshops and classes ranging in length from a few hours or days to eight [...]